On Sat, Dec 5, 2015 at 10:52 PM, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:

Hi affiliates,

As Cascadia Wikimedians works toward US Federal recognition as a charity, we'll be interested in having the option to accept online transactions. So, a couple of questions:

1. Are there any providers of SSL certificate authorities that you've found

particularly easy or difficult to work with?

i'd forget about traditional ones, and go for https://letsencrypt.org/ .

2. What methods do your organizations accept for online transactions,

especially recurring donations and recurring membership dues? The easiest to implement seems to be Paypal. I'm wondering if there are other easy options as well, particularly if they have low transaction fees and low currency conversion fees (since we'll want to accept both Canadian and US currency, and preferably Bitcoin as well).

in the countries i know direct debit would be the cheapest. but i am not so sure about this in north america: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_debit#United_States

checking what providers penny businesses use might be an option as well, e.g. "cheapest telephone abroad" or similar.

best, rupert